Transport Phenomena, 2nd Edition

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Summary: It is commonly known as the bible of transport phenomena.
Review: The book gives a very in depth look at transport phenomena. A reader who understands this information will have no trouble at simpler subjects such as mass and heat transfer. A must for Chemical Engineers but would recommend the use of a good professor.

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Summary: Get this classic
Review: The first edition of this book was published in 1960, and was an absolute classic in the field of heat and mass transfer and viscous flow. I had given up on getting it, since it was so old, when this 2nd edition came out. It's a good graduate level text, very readable and usable with a wealth of solutions for real world problems. Take the opportunity to get this book before it goes out of print again.

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Summary: Get this classic
Review: The first edition of this book was published in 1960, and was an absolute classic in the field of heat and mass transfer and viscous flow. I had given up on getting it, since it was so old, when this 2nd edition came out. It's a good graduate level text, very readable and usable with a wealth of solutions for real world problems. Take the opportunity to get this book before it goes out of print again.

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Summary: A chemical engineering classic
Review: The most enduring text ever written for students of chemical engineering, BSL's "Transport Phenomena" leads the way with its study of momentum, energy, and mass transport. The structure and writing of the book make it unparalled in its usefulness to both beginning students of transport phenomena, and intermediate/advanced students looking for treatments of convective and turbulent transport, and mass transfer in reacting systems.

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Summary: A chemical engineering classic
Review: The most enduring text ever written for students of chemical engineering, BSL's "Transport Phenomena" leads the way with its study of momentum, energy, and mass transport. The structure and writing of the book make it unparalled in its usefulness to both beginning students of transport phenomena, and intermediate/advanced students looking for treatments of convective and turbulent transport, and mass transfer in reacting systems.

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Summary: Unified and deep visulisation of transport phenomena.
Review: The unified visulisation of those phenomena provide to Chemical engineers a very clear idea of the momentum and heat transport, but the basis of the chemical engineers study is the mass transfer and here we found a very good description, else more, Bird, introduce and gide us to solve this kind of problems. Other very interesting side of this book is the tensorial approach that can be percived in his study. For a best start in chemical engineering, this book provides what you need and what you wuill need.

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Summary: ChE's couldn't survive without this book!
Review: This book is known as "BSL" on the University of Wisconsin - Madisonengineering campus for its renowned authors and UW-Madison Professors: Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot. I was lucky enough to have ChE 320: Transport Phenomena, with Prof. Stewart in the late 80's and this book helped me through the class. To this day, I still use my copy.

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Summary: The best
Review: This book is like a bible of transport phenomea

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Summary: This book is not a good book.
Review: This book is very abridged. In fact, I was surprised of its popularity. I am a 3.7 gpa student who feels that this book does NOT provide the necessary detail for a thorough understanding of not only the mathematical derivations presented, but the practical applications of transport phenomena. The authors fail to present their insight to their understanding of the subject. This book does not tell you the "why" part of what they are doing; the book only tells what they are doing. So, if you are looking for a book with detailed derivations and detailed explainations of the concepts, this is NOT the book for you.

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Summary: Absolutely the best book I've used in Chemical Engineering
Review: This book progresses quite rapidly through the various topics; usually begining with a one dimentional analysis and then proceding to more general treatment. This more general treatment tends to consist of Tensor analysis which is explained to a working extent in an appendix. However, after these general equations have been derived they are only refefered to by there location out of a comprehensive chart. Furthermore, the student is trained to use intuition in their approach to problem solving.

In general the text is incredibly consistant and well written. The examples and problems grow from a relitively basic level to those that can only be solved with advanced engineering Mathematics. The progression builds on itself in a nice way.